Cancer patients

Purpose: This study was to identify factors that affect breast cancer patients’ intentions to participate in cancer rehabilitation therapy. Such findings could be utilized early in the rehabilitation process to improve treatment outcomes and quality of life. Methods: A crosssectional study of 300 breast cancer patien

Purpose: The present pilot study was conducted to detect putative cancer stem cell (CSC) from the hepatic portal system and peripheral blood in the colorectal cancer patients and to compare them to healthy donor and diverticulitis patients.
Methods: Laboratory study was performed to identify the expression of cell s

Background: Intrathecal opioid administration has been used widely in patients suffering from severe cancer pain that is not managed with conventional modalities. However, the potential serious neurological complications from the procedure and the side effects of intrathecal opioids have made many clinicians reluctant

Purpose: Lung cancer patients are often stigmatized since lung cancer is closely associated with smoking, which is a self-administered life style. The stigma of lung cancer has been examined in some qualitative studies; however, their findings were diverse and not yet synthesized. Therefore, this meta-synthesis study

Purpose: Several recent studies have reported on the clinical importance and prognostic significance of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) in gastric cancer. The objective of this study was to identify the subgroups of patients with gastric cancer for which the preoperative NLR was prognostically significant.
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